This needs to be a rule in most communities, country ALWAYS needs to be specified. You can’t ask for it to be specified for one country and not the other.
I mean I’ve used the photo of my passport I’ve had favourited on my phone whenever my passport number/a scan of my passport has been needed for about the last 10 years, so it’s at least an inconvenience to just delete them rather than moving them to documents/files or whatever
I was sure I’m getting baited when I clicked the link but it’s one of the rare cases when it actually turned out not to be a clickbait.
This feature literally found and isolated “important files” and now they are deleting those files. Just because it was never available in the US doesn’t mean it’s irrelevant.
Wait, so Google just moved around important users’ files on their devices without being asked to do so. And now they decided to just delete those files together with the feature? This sounds pretty crazy, even for Google.
Yeah, so basically Google invented a feature that finds your important files and deletes them. The future is here!
Of course I’m exaggerating for humoristic effect but in all seriousness I think the whole action is extremely poorly executed. I would be surprised if there weren’t some cases of people actually losing something important because of this.
Particularly worrying for users is that Google plans to delete any file that is inside the Important tab by February 15, 2024. Users who don’t want to lose access to these files need to move them before the shutdown data.
This is so fucking weird. Features like this usually work by merely attaching tags or creating shortcuts, and without moving the original file anywhere. Therefore removing the “Important” tab should only remove the tags and leave files intact.
I wonder whether it’s a poor implementation of the feature by Google (highly unlikely) or poor understanding and misrepresentation of the process by the article’s author (highly possible).
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